Book fair to take place in Limerick city centre

A BOOK FAIR is to take place in Limerick city centre this Bank Holiday Monday.

The LPYMA building at 97, O'Connell Street is playing host to the event, which takes place between 10am and 4pm.

Items of significant local interest, many of museum quality, will be on the stalls of book fair sellers from across Ireland.

Jim Cooney, a Cork antiquarian book dealer will have rare items including a 1927 copy of Songs of the Irish Gaels with signature of previous owner Thomas O Canainn and a copy of the Natural History of Aleppo first edition 1756.

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Postcard and coin dealer Pat Woods has among his offerings a rare poster of Limerick man Edward Daly executed in 1916 and a letter from Daly to his sister Tom Clarke.

He is also bringing some Dan Breen correspondence, an enamel sign of Limerick interest and a large selection of postcards.

Tim Collie of Temple Bar Rare Books will have copies of Bassett's Limerick City Directory 1879-80, a statistical survey of the County of Clare which dates from 1808 and a very rare edition of Limerick War News, dated August 12, 1922.

Joe Collins, also from Dublin brings an original Roger Casement Lithographic Print from the original drawn from life in 1916.

Aside from the rare items on sale a number of dealers will be bringing interesting history and literary books to suit the general reader and collector.

Admission to the book fair is free and all are welcome.